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8401914 Method of operating retail store with mobile application for searching products available but not displayed in the store  
The disclosure provides a method of operating a retail store by displaying copies of some variations of a product in a customer shopping area within the retail store and storing other variations of...
8401907 System and method for dynamic price setting and facilitation of commercial transactions  
The present invention provides methods and systems for defining commercial transaction components; defining rules for mapping customer transactions into individual components; market segmentation...
8401924 System for enabling electronic catalog users to create and share research data  
Comparative decision systems and methods are disclosed for gathering and mining data representative of purchase decisions. One disclosed comparative decision system detects when a user is comparing...
8401911 Display of popular, in-stock products of a merchant  
Displaying popular items that are available for sale at a merchant's physical location comprises creating a electronic document corresponding to the merchant's physical location. Then, a product...
8401915 Method of operating retail store with mobile application for searching products available for sale in the retail store  
The disclosure provides a method of operating a retail store by displaying copies of some variations of a product in a customer shopping area within the retail store and storing other variations of...
8401957 Method and apparatus for generating a sale offer over an electronic network system  
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for presenting sale offers to users of mobile devices. In accordance with some embodiments, a controller is used to set parameters for...
8401921 Seller-driven method for a bid set system  
A method for automatically bidding on multiple on-line auction items up for bid where the number of items the bidder wishes to buy is less than the number of items up for bid is disclosed. A method...
8401909 Content distribution system and content distribution method  
A content distribution system which assures reliability of content is provided. Permitted-user information corresponding to a user who is permitted to use content to be distributed is associated...
8401908 Architectural design for make-to-specification application software  
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing plan-driven procurement. The...
8401910 Method and apparatus for providing group volume pricing  
An apparatus and method for selling goods and services. In one embodiment, a method is described that comprises receiving volume pricing information relating to a product or a service and receiving...
8401913 System and method for producing custom merchandise from a virtual environment  
Systems and methods are provided for producing merchandise for a user based upon a character within a virtual environment, on request of the user, by retrieving character data representing a player...
8401918 Promoting offers through social network influencers  
Mechanisms are provided to facilitate buying and selling products utilizing social pricing. Sellers initiate sale of a product with volume discounts for a limited time. In other words, the more...
8401904 Real-time payment authorization  
Novel features to be used in a proxy card payment system include a real-time request to override a declined transaction or to select a different financial account and the insertion of user...
8401958 Systems and methods for facilitating electronic securities transactions  
A method for facilitating securities transactions is shown. In one embodiment, the method provides for pricing shares of stock traded between anonymous parties without requiring pricing...
8401919 Method of and system for fact checking rebroadcast information  
A fact checking system verifies the correctness of information and/or characterizes the information by comparing the information with one or more sources. The fact checking system automatically...
8401933 Secure, differentiated reading of sensors and RFID tags  
Secure access to inventory data concerning a supplier's product located at a seller's premises is provided by tagging units of product with a supplier identifier and a product identifier. The...
8396739 Quotation system and method  
A quotation system and method are provided (see FIG. 1). A relational database (10) allows various departments (14, 16, 18, 20) to prepare a quotation. The relational database centralizes data to...
8396756 System and method for processing product orders  
A method of processing a product order is disclosed. The method includes receiving a product order from a consumer and selecting a fulfiller to fulfill the product order. A system for processing a...
8396752 Method for managing listing prices in an ecommerce environment  
A computer-implemented method for managing listing prices in an ecommerce environment. The method includes receiving from a user information, including price information, pertaining to a user's...
8396749 Providing customer relationship management application as enterprise services  
Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, for a services architecture design that provides enterprise services having customer relationship management functionality at...
8396751 Managing consistent interfaces for merchandising business objects across heterogeneous systems  
A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by...
8393530 Relative ranking and discovery of items based on subjective attributes  
Relative ranking of items is performed based on a subjective attribute of the items. A user interface that displays the relative ranking of the items includes an axis that corresponds to the...
8396750 Method and system for using recommendations to prompt seller improvement  
Disclosed are various embodiments for recommending improvements in merchant network sites. In one example, a plurality of recommendations are stored in a memory accessible by a server, the...
8396760 Behavioral filter for personalized recommendations  
This disclosure describes systems and associated methods that can selectively filter seed behavior, e.g., user activity used to generate item recommendations. In some embodiments, seed behaviors...
8396753 Simplified orders using words or phrases  
A user communicates, such as through text, a phrase or word to quickly place and pay for an order. The phrase corresponds to details of the order and one phrase can contain orders with multiple...
8396799 Media device payments remote control personalization and protection  
A server is operable to receive a media device identifying number (ID) and to create an established association between the media device with a payment account and to support at least one of...
8396758 Systems and methods for confirming purchases of products from a retail establishment using a mobile device  
Techniques for confirming purchases of products from a retail establishment using a mobile device allow for loss prevention personnel at a retail establishment to confirm that users exiting the...
8396728 Method and apparatus for improved customer direct on-line reservation of rental vehicles  
Disclosed herein is a reservation booking website wherein customers who plan to travel via general aviation (GA) are provided with a GA reservation creation path that is responsive to their GA...
8396755 Method of reclaiming products from a retail store  
A method of reclaiming products from a retail store includes passing a plurality of products through an object identification system, capturing images of the plurality of products with object...
8396754 System and method for an electronic gift key  
A system and method facilitating delivery of a fully-integrated physical item providing access to non-physical content is presented. The method includes enabling access to an electronic greeting...
8396787 Simplified quote sharing calculation  
Presented is a method for calculating and distributing quoting share revenue to exchange members that contribute quote data to market data feeds. First, the method reads in trading data...
8396761 Providing product catalog software application as enterprise services  
Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, for a services architecture design that provides enterprise services having product catalog functionality at the level of an...
8396757 Estimating future grid job costs by classifying grid jobs and storing results of processing grid job microcosms  
A method, system, and program for estimating future grid job costs by classifying grid jobs and storing results of processing grid job microcosms are provided. In general, a client side agent...
8396743 Sending targeted product offerings based on personal information  
Targeted products are offered over a communications network. Product data for a plurality of products from a plurality of distributors for the products is received. Customer data from a plurality...
8392259 Methods and apparatus to obtain transaction confirmation  
Methods and apparatus to obtain transaction confirmation are described. One example method includes emulating a payment method using a close-proximity communication device of a mobile device,...
8392262 Method and apparatus for selecting a pickup location based on customer location  
A method and apparatus for determining a pickup location for an item selected in an online transaction based on location information or data. The method comprises obtaining location data for the...
8392264 Systems and methods of providing a guaranteed price for a used durable good  
Systems and methods are provided for periodically calculating a guaranteed price for a used durable good, such as an automobile. The current guaranteed price is continuously accessible by an owner...
8392290 Seller conversion factor to ranking score for presented item listings  
Various embodiments include a method and system for a seller conversion factor to ranking score for presented item listings. In an online marketplace with sellers and item listings, a first sum may...
8392270 Sharing information on a network-based social platform  
A system and method for sharing information on a network-based social platform is provided. A search request, from a first user, for an item from a network-based marketplace is received via an...
8392269 Purchasing system and a method for computerized selling in a service station  
A portable purchasing device is delivered to a vehicle of a customer of a service station. The customer initiates a purchase order by using the portable purchasing device. The purchase order is...
8392268 Method and system of displaying, managing and selling images in an event photography environment  
A system for displaying photographs is provided. The display system includes a plurality of rotatable carousels that each possess a plurality of slots for receiving folders that hold photographs...
8392277 Systems and methods for allocating units to users in an online environment  
Described herein are systems and methods for allocating units to users, for example in the context of an online auction environment. In overview, the technology described herein provides for an...
8392263 Method and system for selecting and conveying relevant and personalized gifts using online personal gift profile  
A method and system selects and conveys relevant and personalized gifts using an online personal gift profile having personal preference data. The method includes providing, by a conveying user,...
8392300 Method and system for transferring bill payment data  
A system and method for transferring bill payment data whereby a user identifies their current financial institution and provides authentication data associated with their current online account...
8392267 System, method, and software application for dynamically generating a link to an online procurement site within a software application  
The present invention provides a system, method, and software application for providing a link to an online procurement site from within a supported software application. In one embodiment, when a...
8392271 Sharing information on a network-based social platform  
A system and method for sharing information on a network-based social platform is provided. An indication is received from a first user to share information on a network-based social platform. The...
8392288 Add-on to software application to identify electronic receipt data  
Identifying electronic receipt data with a plug-in to a software application. Consumer purchases from merchants may be confirmed with an electronic receipt or message, which may be displayed by or...
8392272 Method and system of online shopping via third party using blog  
A system of online shopping via a sales agent includes user terminals (1); seller terminals (21); sales agent terminals (22); two web servers (3) wherein one web server (3) comprises a seller blog...
8392281 System and interface for promoting complementary items  
A complementary item promoter user interface (UI) is provided that promotes, to a user, items that are complementary to an item of interest to the user. Upon the user's selection of an item of...
8392275 Identifier-based charge on delivery transaction  
Guaranteed funds from a buyer are held until a delivery to the buyer is confirmed by a payment provider. The funds are then released to the seller immediately upon confirmation. Confirmation may be...